422 CHEYSOMELID^E. 



sides more or less piceous, scales more prominent on the basal 

 margin in front of the shoulders. Legs fulvous ; femora with a 

 small tooth, anterior and posterior femora strongly thickened. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Nilgiris ; Pondicherry. 



This species appears to be closely allied to ff. harmandi, Lefev. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1893), but in that insect the elytra as 

 described are strongly punctured, with grey and white scales and 

 round denuded patches intermixed, while the intermediate tibia) 

 are emarginate at apex. 



The present species seems somewhat intermediate between 

 Demotina and Hyperaons, as the anterior and posterior femora 

 are less incrassate than is generally the case in the last-named 

 genus, but more thickened than in Demotina. 



743. Hyperaxis penicillata, sp. n. 



Fuscous ; basal joints of antennae fulvous ; elytra with small 

 whitish pubescent and bare fuscous spots near the suture and 

 margins. 



Head closely covered with fulvous scales ; antennae with the 

 basal seven joints fulvous, rest wanting in the type and only 

 specimen. Thorax subquadrate, scarcely broader than long, not 

 widened at the sides, disc with an obsolete transverse depression 

 in the middle, clothed with scales like the head. Elytra oblong, 

 subcylindrical, finely punctured in rather distantly placed rows, 

 which are visible only at base ; pubescence partly white and 

 fulvous, forming irregular spots, five or six more conspicuous 

 fuscous spots are apparent near the suture and can be best seen 

 when looked at sideways ; interstices with single stiff short black 

 hairs. Anterior and posterior femora incrassate, armed each with a 

 stout tooth ; intermediate tibire distinctly notched at the apex. 



Length 3% mm. 



ffab. Southern India : Travaucore, Wallardi (Coll. Jacoby). 



The mottled appearance given by the grey and fuscous spots on 

 the elytra, and the shape of the thorax with its obscure sulcus 

 will help to discriminate this insect. 



744. Hyperaxis mandarensis, sp. n. 



Obscure piceous, clothed with yellow pubescence ; labrum, 

 antennae and legs fulvous ; elytra with an indistinct transverse 

 band at the middle, a spot near lateral margins, another at the 

 suture near apex and the apex itself, white. 



Head clothed with the usual fulvous scales ; clypeus strongly 

 transverse, pubescent, anterior margin nearly straight; labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae fulvous, third and following joints elongate, 

 terminal three joints shorter and thicker. Thorax scarcely half 



